HP Sauce, vodka and Christmas cards from the Queen, Margaret Thatcher and Princess Dianna among the items sold for £200,000 at auction of Harold Wilson's belongings in 'Downing Street version of Bargain Hunt'

Hundreds of lots quadrupled their estimates at the Staffordshire auction

The collection was from the estate of Lady Wilson who died last year aged 102

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Harold Wilson's beloved pipe, a Comoy´s Leonardo, sold for £320 at the auction in Bishton Hall in Staffordshire

The collection of 700 items, from the estate of Lady Wilson who died last year aged 102, was initially expected to raise around £65,000.

A watercolour by the Prince of Wales sold for £10,500 at the sale in Bishton Hall in Little Haywood, Staffordshire – believed to be a world record-breaking price.

An order of service and an invitation to Sir Winston Churchill's funeral reached £4,500 from an original estimate of £200.

A vase given to Wilson by Pope Paul VI reached £4,700 from an estimate of £1,500 while a collection of photos gifted to Wilson by US president Lyndon B Johnson sold for £3,400.

Among the 700 items auctioned was a water colour by Prince Charles with a handwritten latter which he gifted to Lady Wilson

A raincoat owned by the former prime minister featured among the lot which reached £200,000, well above the £65,000 estimate

Lady Wilson died last year aged 102, having nursed her husband in his ill health until his death in 1995

A novelty bottle of HP Sauce was sold at the auction with the label: 'Personal bottle for the Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP'

Even Christmas cards from the royals were snapped up, with one from the Queen and Prince Philip tripling estimates to reach £170.

Jim Spencer, Hansons' associate director, said: 'It was a privilege to catalogue this collection. Seven van loads of material were waiting for me. It was like a 50,000-piece jigsaw.

'It was an unprecedented sale. Everything was kept over the years, every gift or signed book or presentation album of photographs.

The future prime minister fought and won his first election in 1945 in the constituency of Ormskirk in the Labour landslide and he kept the official poll result among his prized possessions

A school essay dated February 1934 titled Perfectly Monstrous was one of the draws in the auction

Wilson, who served as prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976, kept a framed photograph of a meeting with the Queen

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (left) meets with French President Charles de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace in Paris in 1967

'I don't think a prime minister's entire life has come up for auction like this before. But here it was, gifts from presidents, photographs, letters, Christmas cards, everything.'

He added: 'I kept finding things. I had to check every scrap of paper. Wilson dominated my dreams. To see it all come to fruition in this phenomenally successful sale has been the highlight of my career.'

Mr Wilson, who was born in Huddersfield, served as prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. He died in 1995 aged 79.

Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's widow left more than £2 million in her will - including £1.8m Westminster flat and bungalow on the Isles of Scilly

Former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's widow left more than £2 million in her will.

Lady Wilson's fortune was largely drawn from two properties the couple had owned for decades – a £1.8 million flat in Westminster and a three-bedroom bungalow they had built in 1959 on the Isles of Scilly.

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson with his wife Mary in a State Landau carriage driving along Fleet Street, on their way to the Guildhall to receive the freedom of the city, London in December 1975

The bungalow was put up for sale in March for £425,000.

Lady Wilson – who nursed the former Labour leader before his death from Alzheimer's aged 79 in 1995 – died last year aged 102.

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson with his wife Mary in a State Landau carriage driving along Fleet Street, on their way to the Guildhall to receive the freedom of the city, London in December 1975

Probate records reveal she left the bulk of her £2.3 million estate to her sons Robin Wilson, a professor of mathematics in Oxfordshire and Giles Wilson, a teacher from Devon.